Straight No Chaser - A Jazz Show

Straight No Chaser is the place for jazz lovers (and those who will soon be jazz lovers) to enjoy podcasts with their favorite music and artists. Winner of the 2017 JazzTimes Readers' Poll for Best Podcast, your host Jeffrey Siegel will take you inside the world of jazz, from the new releases to the best festiva;s to remembrances of jazz legends.

Call it "amateur night" or a glamorous evening, New Year's Eve
is a key date on everyone's social calendar. Once again I'll be
spending the evening in with my wife Nancy and our dogs, Angus and
Hamish, eating and drinking to excess and watching old movies.

Last month celebrates the 40th anniversary of ECM Records,
and I offered a number of postings featuring music from
this iconic label, including a new CD by Jan Garbarek. For
me, one artist represents ECM better than any other - Keith
Jarrett.

Jarrett had learned his craft playing with Art Blakey and
Charles Lloyd,...

But fifty years ago today, Bill Evans was hard at work at what
would become Portrait in Jazz, one of his best efforts for
Riverside records. I'm not sure if Bill had his tongue firmly in
cheek, or whether he simply loved the song, but Rodgers &
Hart's

A Merry Christmas to you all. I am a practicing Jew
who does not celebrate Christmas as the birth of the messiah.
However, I can appreciate the universal themes of peace, love and
understanding that are prevelant this time of year, and so the
Offical Straight No Chaser song of Christmas Day is "Peace",
written by Horace...